Singapore

WhyQ, Singapore-based food delivery platform, has successfully secured an additional MYR4.6 million ($1.08 million) in an extension to their Series A2 funding round. The extended round was led by the Kairos FoodTech Fund of Kairos Capital Group.

Singapore-based taxi firm ComfortDelGro Corporation, said Wednesday it has invested €4 million ($4.37 million) in Shift4Good, a global independent venture capital impact fund dedicated to sustainablemobility. In so doing, it becomes the fund’s first strategic investor in South East Asia and joins other industry heavyweights like Renault Group as strategic…

Pilon, a Singapore-based FinTech firm that offers cloud-based supply chain financing system, has on Friday announced that it has successfully raised a seed round of $5.2 million led by Wavemaker Partners. The round also saw participation from Octava Pte Ltd and Polaris Kin Pte Ltd.

Capital Square Partners (CSP) and Basil Technology Partners (BTP) (collectively the GP or the team), two Singapore-based private equity firms, announced Thursday a new partnership and the successful close of a about $700 million fund (CSP Fund II).

GOOD Meat, the cultivated meat division of food technology company Eat Just, Inc., has on Wednesday announced that it has been given a new, first-in-the-world regulatory approval by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) for the use of serum-free media for the production of cultivated meat.

Sustainability and data safety have emerged as hot topics in the electronics goods sector in recent years, a report showed Wednesday. According to data from YouGov’s latest report, Consumer electronics: Safety and sustainability in 2023, consumers in Singapore are indeed placing an increasing focus on them, with sustainability and data privacy moving up in…

HashKey Capital, a global asset manager specializing in crypto and blockchain, has announced the final closing of its third fund, HashKey FinTech Investment Fund III (Fund III) with a total commitment of $500 million.

Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Blackpanda has raised $15 million in its Series A funding round co led by Primavera Venture Partners and Gaw Capital Partners. The round will fund the expansion of its technology enabled cybersecurity services, including digital forensics and incident response.

In the interview, Yao also shared the trends driving innovation in the EduTech industry and how has COVID-19 sped up the acceptance of online learning and hybrid learning.

Singapore-based investment institution Lighthouse Canton has announced the first close of its newly launched venture debt strategy at $20 million.